Dovecot, Largo Home Farm, Upper Largo is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1984.

Dovecot, Largo Home Farm, Upper Largo

WRENN ID
mired-banister-hemlock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1984
OS grid reference
NO 418 035
Coordinates
56.22121, -2.93969
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The dovecot, likely dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, is located at Largo Home Farm, Upper Largo. It is a rectangular structure built of whin and boulder rubble, originally thinly harled, and featuring large ashlar dressings. The dovecot has a central door and a distinctive rat course stepped on either side. Its gables are crowstepped. The roof has been removed, but stone nesting boxes remain within the structure. References: RCAHM: FIFE 1933 p185.

Local climate

Dovecot, Largo Home Farm, Upper Largo receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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